Readers - Do you need a bookmark, or do you go by the page number?

When I actually don’t make it through a book in one sitting, I use a bookmark. If the bookmark gets pulled out or it falls out, I can usually find where I left off though. Now that I do most of my reading on the Kindle, it doesn’t matter since it automatically takes me back to where I stopped.

I need a bookmark. I sometimes cat-ear (bend) the corner of the page to mark it.

i always put something to hold my place… a ticket stub, clean napkins, to do list… but i try to remember the page too! sometimes i doggy ear the page, depends.

I cannot remember numbers well. I don’t need to have a bookmark-bookmark, but I need some kind of placeholder (I have used everything from bookmarks given to me as gifts, receipts, important school documents that I end up forgetting about, unused napkins, business cards, index cards – which I enjoy because I can write down words to look up later, and torn pieces of scrap paper.)

I can’t make myself bend the corners of pages. It makes me cringe. I’ll keep my finger in the book until I acquire a makeshift bookmark.

I tend to use a bookmark. Since most reading is done in bed before going to sleep, there is the occasion where I doze off before marking it and turning off the light. Remembering the general area where I left off is helpful, and I don’t mind re-reading until finding the proper place.

I go by page number.

@muppetish I can’t bend the corners of pages either. I will grab whatever paper I can if I don’t have a bookmark handy.

If I say the page number out loud, I can usually remember. I close the book and say, “I am on page 237.”

But I use a bookmark if I have something handy.

I read books like I masturbate, which is a fuck of a lot. Don’t need no stinking page number or bookmark, I just find the spot.

Jokes aside, doesn’t take me long to find where I was last at, without any outer aid but my memory.

doggy ear it. lol, @ducky_dnl ;)
I like just finding it too, as @Symbeline so eloquently stated- if it’s a nice book that I don’t want to mess up.

Bookmarks (or scrap of paper, whatever) all the way. I have enough to keep straight as it is. Plus I’m often reading more than 1 book at a time, so bookmarks keep things in place on all fronts. Finally, the wife is a librarian. She’d kill me if I dog-eared a book.

Book mark. but if your having issues with people removing your bookmark beat the up or turn down the corner of the page.

Page numbers or usually read to complete a chapter and remember which chapter. I also tend to put paperbacks down open to the page I was on.

I usuaklly use a scrap of paper or whatever is laying around, like a pen or something. Or just go by the page number. I can usually pick up where I left off without a marker easily enough. I lose my bookmarks like it’s my job.

I normally don’t use either—and I just can’t bring myself to doggy ear a page. My bookmarks always fall out or I forget to put it there in there first place, and I can rarely remember a page number no matter how many times I mumble it to myself under my breath. But I just open the book back up and flip back and forth until I find where I was, normally in a matter of seconds.

I prefer a bookmark, improvised or no, but if one isn’t handy I’ll go by page number. In the case of small paperbacks that I’m just setting down for a moment, I’ll lay the open-faced book face-down.

I remember my page numbers. Even when I’m reading on my Kindle, which saves your place for you, I remember my location. With treeware, I use a bookmark if there’s one around. But if there isn’t, it’s no big deal.

Bookmark. I’ll use anything, though – a square of toilet paper, part of an envelope, whatever’s around. Without bookmarks, I’m totally lost.

I use my pet bunny ears as a bookmark or I put his paw on the space bar on my laptop here while I get me some refreshments.

Because I’m constantly annotating whatever I read, it’s pretty easy to see where I left off – it’s where my pencil (or pen) marks stop. Annotating also naturally helps me to remember what passage(s) I last read. Some very lengthy books like Infinite Jest are special cases that I had to use two bookmarks for, but I typically just go by memory of page numbers or chapter numbers or the indication of my annotations.

Despite all the writing I put in my books, one thing I can’t do is dog-ear their pages.

I use page number. Sometimes I forget, but I just skim around until I find my page.
However, I only do that if I am going to resume reading the same day or in the morning.
If you are waiting more than 24 hours to continue reading, I’d stick with the bookmark.

I don’t like rereading parts of a book, because I get stuck in a rut where I keep going over the same part, especially if it’s one of those days where I only pick up the book for a few minutes at a time. But I lose bookmarks so easily, I tend to go by page number. Or at least vague location.

Sometimes I like envelope bookmarks, where you cut the corner off an old envelope, then slip it over the corner of the page you want to mark.

Bookmark. I cannot remember to look at page numbers and even if I did, the number would disappear from my mind within five minutes. A relative made me a beautiful brass and crystal bookmark that I use all the time.

Paperclip.

If it’s my book, I do all sorts of terrible things to it… break the spines (on purpose), lay it down open, and dog ear the pages. I fold the page to the exact line I need to start re-reading on. I actually prefer my books to feel like an old comfortable slipper, rather than a new high heeled shoe – all awkward and stiff.

If the book belongs to someone else (or a library), I use makeshift bookmarks. Usually those little postcard thingys that fall out of magazines or a strip of toilet paper. I, um, read in the bathroom a lot. ;)

@BarnacleBill I used to use paper clips, too, in other people’s books. I liked them because I could mark the line. However, I noticed they made dents/marks on the pages, so I stopped.

BOOKMARK!! Nobody has ever removed mine though. Nobody fiddles with my books anyway.

Well my Kindle remembers where I am in each book – otherwise, I fold the page over.

I use a little sticky tab or a clip that’s made as a bookmark. Bookmarks are too bulky, I like when I can just stick it to the page.

Any scrap of paper for a bookmark. I wouldn’t remember a page number longer than ten minutes.

I used to fold the corner. Then I got a Kindle. And then I got an iPad. No more corners to bend.

Sounds like a serious pet peeve… I recommend giving away those assault rifles you keep…